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Flair

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Flair is a special tagging system that you can enable for your community via the “Edit Flair” option in your moderation tools. Flair can be applied both to users and to posts, and you can decide whether this flair appears on the left or right side of the text next to it.

User flair shows next to usernames, as you see with the "It's Not A Tuba" flair added next to u/liltrixxy below:

User flair can be used to distinguish trusted community members or highlight specialized areas of knowledge someone may have. It can also be used in a variety of other official, creative, and fun ways, depending on what suits your community.

You can grant special flair to community members via the "Edit Flair" tool, or, if you have allowed for it in your flair settings, users can assign their own flair. (It’s up to the user whether or not their flair will appear in your community, as that is a user-controlled setting available in the right-hand sidebar of each subreddit.)

Link flair shows next to a post title, as seen with the "Hall & Oates" flair on the post below:

Link flair can be used to help categorize post content types, flag content about a certain subtopic of your community, tag a post with removal reasons, or anything else you think might be useful.

As seen in the screenshot above, if flair is enabled, there will be a "flair" option under each post in your community so that flair can be assigned by community members or moderators, depending on your flair settings. Clicking on it will bring up a menu of flair options, such as the one below:

New text flair options for users and posts can be added easily. Simply go to the “Edit Flair” mod tool, then select either “user flair templates” (to add new flair options for users) or “link flair templates” (to add new flair options for posts). The third option, “grant flair,” enables you to give someone in your community user flair.

To grant flair, enter the username of the person receiving flair, click go, add the flair text, and click save. To add new user and link flair options, simply enter the text and click “save” for each tag you’d like to make available as flair. (Note: You do not have to put anything in the “css class” field for simple text flair!)

Below is an example of the link flair template tab used for the link flair shown above:

Finally, you can customize the flair options with colors and images using CSS. If you're interested in learning more about advanced flair options, visit r/csshelp. They have some excellent community resources available in their sidebar.